Glen Scotia – 9 Year Old Festival 2025 Heavily Peated Ribera del Duero Cask (70cl, 54.3%)

A nine-year-old heavily peated Campbeltown single malt from Glen Scotia, released for the 2025 Campbeltown Malts Festival. It is finished in Ribera del Duero red wine casks and bottled at 54.3% in a 70cl bottle, non-chill-filtered and with natural colour. The distillery makes peated spirit for only about four weeks a year, which makes the peated release unusual. Ribera del Duero is a Spanish wine region where Tempranillo is the main grape. The nose is peat smoke with a maritime edge. The palate has light liquorice sweetness and depth, and the finish brings tropical notes, ripe red fruit and juicy blackberries.